Tuesday night’s explosive rout of the Republican party was supercharged by the fury of Hispanic Americans who turned out in record numbers in key battlegrounds to protest the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant assault on their communities.

“Trump went against us,” said Benny Melendez from Weslaco, Texas. “He made us the target of ICE operations, so we decided to punish him by voting against his party. That’s what happened.”

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A lot of my fellow Latinos were very fucking stupid for voting in Trump. They were basically told - to their face - that a lot of them would be arrested and deported. After all that they they just went with it either because they thought they'd make more money and a bunch of empowered racists would leave them alone for some reason.

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